Is the term “Rototiller” trademarked? It’s the kind of question a writer like me finds myself asking. I’ll tell you why I needed to know — then I’ll tell you the answer. The Weirdness Of A Writer’s Life One of the writing agencies for which I sometimes work allows writers to pick up open...
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Rejoice! For today is born in a rural area outside Fort Worth, Texas a blog post that collects Christmas-birthday bloggers in one location for the benefit of the world. It may not matter much to you, but I always think it’s interesting when I find a person whose birthday is on Christmas day. As...
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The question is simple enough, and although the answer involves some complex science, so is the answer: Is the high maltose corn syrup found in many candies, bars (including Fiber One bars), baked good and beer as bad for you as the high fructose corn syrup found in soft drinks and a huge variety...
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Not long after I decided to make online bookselling my career — before I got a scouting service for my cell phone and years before I bought a PDA and barcode scanner — I stumbled onto a large collection of lesbian fiction in the clearance section at one of Fort Worth’s Half Price Books...
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These things aren’t usually any good, but this one is. Documentaries about old television series are often just collections of clips held together with a bad voice-over by an anonymous announcer. “Lost in Space Forever” is different, though. Actor John Larrroquette, a surprisingly good host, joins the Robot on a reconstruction of the series’...
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I feel like I’ve been an Internet bookseller forever, but it really hasn’t been that long at all. I made my first significant bookselling income on Amazon.com in January 2003. I had sold some books on Half.com before that, but if I must choose a date when I really became a bookseller, let’s set it...
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Why not spend a couple of hours enjoying a good movie with a positive, animal-friendly message? PETA’s website offered suggestions for animal-friendly, compassionate movies that you might want to watch — or rewatch — in a recent Vegan Grandmother column. “Today’s enlightened parents and grandparents have a plethora of animal- and environment-friendly movies with...
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One of the first articles posted was about the Limbs for Life Foundation, an organization I learned about because I like Beatles music. (Read the story here.) I saw an article a couple of weeks ago about another organization, the Jordan Thomas Foundation. It offers similar to help. Thomas was an athletic teen in...
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I own the domain name ConspiracyofGood.com because I planned to start a blog highlighting the good things in this world. And since everything is essentially good, that wouldn’t be hard to do. But for a variety of reasons, I decided not to do the project. Here’s the text I wrote for the COG “About...
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Did you know that a prosthesis for an above-knee amputee can cost $16,500 or more? For below-knee amputees, who require simpler prosthetics, the cost can still reach $7,000. The Limbs for Life Foundation is dedicated to providing arms and legs to individual amputees who cannot afford them. It’s that simple: direct help for someone...
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